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The Tomatometer is 60% or higher.

Rotten

The Tomatometer is 59% or lower.

Certified Fresh

Movies and TV shows are Certified Fresh with a steady Tomatometer of 75% or
higher after a set amount of reviews (80 for wide-release movies, 40 for
limited-release movies, 20 for TV shows), including 5 reviews from Top Critics.

The female protagonist, an economically privileged young woman turned workers'-rights organiser and something of an animal activist, makes the film both satisfying and uncommon.&dash; Sight and Sound - EDIT

The final twist in Women Who Kill might leave you first shaking your head, and then marveling at Jungermann's courage in allowing a character as alive in her contradictions as Morgan the imaginative luxury of ambiguity to the very end.&dash; Artforum - EDIT

How is it that some people escape the racism and misogyny in which they are raised and some cling to it as their reason for existence? Wilkerson doesn't offer an answer. But raising the question is more than enough.&dash; Artforum - EDIT

All this makes the film sound unbearably sad, and at moments it is. But it is also a tribute to Howard's energy and to a wildly improvisatory cultural moment when Beat, punk, and Minimalist aesthetics merged in New York No Wave.&dash; Artforum - EDIT

Even at a compressed ten minutes, the anxiety-producing visuals and rhythms of Project X bring to mind two great spy thrillers of the 1970s, Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men and Sydney Pollack's Three Days of the Condor.&dash; Artforum - EDIT

It's a measure of Begleiter's documentary skills and her commitment to Hesse's work and vivid presence that such scant materials have resulted in a portrait that is so lively, intelligent, and moving.&dash; Artforum - EDIT

What's remarkable about Carol is that it seems to exist entirely in the present moment-to be precise, in that electric, elastic, heart-stopping/heart-racing present of romantic desire.&dash; Film Comment Magazine - EDIT

Akerman's control of the expressive elements, particularly the performances, which are at once subdued and theatrical, and the choreography of the long takes, in which actors move through the encroaching jungle, are exceptional.&dash; Artforum - EDIT

Freyer uses brief clips from video recordings of British productions of Vanya... and by comparison the actors in P.S. 75's production... are no less truthful and urgent in their depictions of the characters than the great actors.&dash; Artforum - EDIT

Despite the ending, which we know even before we buy our tickets, Amy is not a depressing movie. Winehouse put her torn-up feelings and genre samplings inside perfect Brill Building song structures. Kapadia pulls off a similar feat.&dash; Artforum - EDIT

Tamra Davis's documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child might make you weep (it did me) and might help you better appreciate a painter whose work matters enormously in the history of late-twentieth-century art.&dash; Artforum - EDIT

What makes this slight narrative compelling is that it is told entirely from the children's point of view, synced to their perceptions and to the mercurial emotions that color them.&dash; Artforum - EDIT

Penn burrows inside his character, capturing not only Milk's Long Island Jewish intonations and his gay body language but also the intensity of his beliefs and the particular mix of fear and desire through which he viewed the world.&dash; Artforum - EDIT

If Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time Redux (2008) is not the most beautiful movie ever made, then at least its beauty is sufficient to obliterate, for the moment, the memory of all others.&dash; Artforum - EDIT